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By fotoeins on 9 December 2016

Since 2003, December 11 is International Mountain Day as designated by the United Nations General Assembly. Annually, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) observes the day:

… to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build alliances that will bring positive change to mountain peoples and environments around the world.

•   Mountains cover almost one-quarter (22 percent) of the Earth’s surface.
•   Up to 80 percent of the world’s freshwater supply comes from mountains.
•   One in eight people (13 percent) around the world lives in the mountains.
•   Mountain tourism accounts for almost 20 percent of the worldwide tourism industry.

The following provides a glimpse to the mountain environments around the world and to the challenging conditions our ancestors would have faced and endured.

1.   Australia

Blue Mountains, from Katoomba, NSW.

2.   Austria

Alpbach, Tirol.

Alpbach valley in early spring-morning light (HL 20180514; see this).

3.   Brazil

Serra do Ibitiraquire mountains, near Morretes, Paraná.

At 1877 metres (6158 feet), Pico Paraná is the highest point in Paraná state and in southern Brazil (HL 20110710; see this).

4.   Canada

Coast Mountain Range, near Vancouver, BC.

The indigenous Squamish First Nations people once had coastal villages in and around Howe Sound (HL 20140516; see also this post).

5.   Chile

Lower Andes, near Vicuña, Región de Coquimbo (Región IV).

A sleepy “zorro” (desert fox), from Cerro Tololo Observatory (HL 20070623; see this).

6.   Chile

Coastal Range (Cordillera de la Costa), Región de Antofagasta (Región II).

7.   Germany

Zugspitze, in southern Bavaria.

8.   México

Picacho del Diablo, Parque San Pedro Martír, Baja California.

Southeast from México’s Observatorio Astronómico Nacional to highest point on Baja California peninsula (HL 20051216; see this).

9.   New Zealand

Southern Alps, flyover near Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park.

10.   South Africa

Table Mountain, over Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula.

From the back of the Table to where the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean meet (HL 20121013; see this).

11.   USA

Kohala, on the Big Island of Hawai’i.

Cinder cones on extinct volcano Kohala (HL 20091208; see this).

Photo by Amy Toensing for Getty Images. UN FAO International Mountain Day 2016.

Except for the top and bottom images, I made the remaining photos (HL) between 2005 and 2018 with Canon (Powershot A510, EOS 450D, EOS 6D mark I) and Fujifilm (X70). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-99u.